CSLA for Silverlight 3.8.1 and WCF

thomaa posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010

VS2010
Silverlight 3
CSLA for Silverlight 3.8.1
.Net 3.5
(on VMWare Fusion)

I'm currently going through Rocky's video series on CSLA for Silverlight (which, btw, is great!). However, already on Demo001-project I run into problems.

First, the projects have to be converted to VS2010. No problem, in general, but the service reference will not generate.

This is how I fixed it:

1. After reading some posts, I decided to change the service name. Appearently, there are some issuses with service names with with a dot (.). I change the namespace and name on service from "web.demoservice" to "webDemoservice". Rebuild the webproject.

2. Delete the existing webservice reference and and a new - with a name you haven't tried before! AND..

3. Make sure to uncheck "Reuse types in referenced asseblies"

4. Change code to reflect the new proxy.

..and it works!


Question: Why do I have to uncheck the "reuse types.." in service ref? In VS2008, with the same demo project, I don't need to do this!


t.

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, January 13, 2010

I've noticed this too. I think this has to do with some of the upcoming WCF RIA Services features, which do some assembly sharing between client and server. I also think that functionality is not complete in Beta 2 :)

But clearly Msft is doing some work in this space, and so the behavior of WCF references from SL to .NET has changed in VS10.